The Black Sabbath debuted two new songs at the first show on their Australian and New Zealand tour in Auckland last night (April 22, 2013).

Jon Stevens introduced a brand new Noiseworks song in the band’s set at the Stone Music Festival in Sydney on Saturday.

Jimmy Barnes delivered the hits for his performance on the main stage at Stone in Sydney on Saturday.

You Am I has added a Hobart date for the upcoming Hi Fi Daily Double tour.

Jack Dee is a misery guts and proud of it. He wears the whinging, grumpy, Englishman tag to a tee; it bodes him well. Dee has made talking about banal daily routine an art form and centres on the worst week of his life, which started with a blown light bulb in his garage.

Margaret Cho’s show, Mother turns out to be the “mother of all bad stand up” rather than an “untraditional look at motherhood”.

Some of Australia’s biggest artists including Russell Morris, Renee Geyer and Deborah Conway will be visiting music stores to celebrate Record Store Day Australia today.

Van Halen will headline day one the first ever Stone Festival in Sydney today with a line-up also featuring Aerosmith, Jimmy Barnes and supergroup Kings of Chaos.

Here is the first new music released by Black Sabbath from their upcoming album 13.

You Am I have added more shows for Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth for their Hi Fi Daily Double Shows starting in June.

The Movement Festival, due to start in Australia next week, has been cancelled.

Van Halen will play their first show since June, 2012 at Stone Fest in Sydney this weekend.

Kim Wilde and Nik Kershaw will return to Australia for shows in October.

Tickets were $250 (although those that waited until the day of the show paid as low as $50) and what the fans got for their money was a little over 1-1/2 hours of mostly new music.

Influential 70s New York band Television will perform their art punk classic Marquee Moon in Melbourne for All Tomorrow’s Parties in November.

Peter Garrett was back on stage with his Midnight Oil mates Jim Moginie and Rob Hirst to sing for Doc Neeson.

With the addition of second and third dates in many of the already scheduled cities, the Rolling Stones have fifteen shows total on the books of what was originally rumored to be a total of 18.

Aerosmith’s first show of 2013 will be a Stone Fest in Sydney this coming Saturday.

Singer songwriter Don McLean will return to Australia for a national tour in August.

The original Boomtown Rats, Bob Geldof, Pete Briquette, Simon Crowe and Garry Roberts, are reforming for a world tour.

Engelbert Humperdinck will return to Australia for shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Newcastle in July.

Comedy Festival fans vacated the performance by American comedian Tracy Jordan at Melbourne’s Hamer Hall on Sunday night when it quickly became clear that instead of a comedy set Morgan was just delivering a sexist, racist rant.

After Guy Sebastian completes his current Get Along tour of Australia’s capital cities he is going to get along to regional areas that seldom see a performer of his calibre.

Despite coming to Australia three times before, Todd Rundgren says he is aware that he has never done his own show and will make up for it on his coming tour.

The first weekend of the Coachella Festival from Indio, CA will be streamed live via YouTube and among the numerous modern artists are sets from a few veterans.

Joan Baez is going to be one very busy woman this summer. On Monday, Baez announced a summer tour of the U.S., including a special acoustic date with Jackson Browne and Emmylou Harris, and a late trek down under for the first time in 25 years.

The Bellrays will head back to Australia in June for dates in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and the Gold Coast.

Pez has reactivated for his first Australian dates in three years.

Colin Hay, formerly of Men at Work, is bringing his Finding My Dance Tour to the U.S. after a run of more than twenty dates in Australia.

You Am I will mark their 20th anniversary with the re-release of their first three albums.